The term Merciless Parliament refers to the English parliamentary session of February 1388, at which Richard II's entire court was convicted of treason. An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ... Events Beginning of prosecution of Lollards in England The Battle of Otterburn between England and Scotland A Chinese army under Xu Da sacks Karakorum Births September 14 - Claudius Claussön Swart, Danish geographer September 29 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. ... Richard II (January 6, 1367 – February 14, 1400) was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan The Fair Maid of Kent. He was born at Bordeaux and became his fathers heir when his elder brother died in infancy. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ...

After their victory at Radcot Bridge against the forces of Robert de Vere, the anti-Ricardian Lords Appellant were in a position of incontestible strength. During the Parliament, the group - which consisted of the Duke of Gloucester (Thomas of Woodstock) and the Earls of Arundel, Warwick, Derby (Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV) and Nottingham - pursued their earlier accusations against Richard's inner circle, almost wholly unopposed. Robert de Vere fleeing Radcot Bridge, 1387: taken from the Gruthuse manuscript of Froissarts Chroniques (ca. ... Richard de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was a favourite of King Richard II of England, on whom the King relied for advice and to whom he gave land, honours and wealth. ... The Lords Appellant were a group of powerful barons who came together during the 1380s to seize political control of England from King Richard II. The group was so called because its members claimed simply to be appealing to the King for good government (their major complaint was Richards... Gloucester (pronounced ) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border. ... Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (January 7, 1355 - September 8 (or 9), 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa. ... Arundel is a town in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. ... Map sources for Warwick at grid reference SP2865 Warwick (pronounced warrick ) is the historic county town of Warwickshire in England and has a population of 25,434 (2001 census). ... Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ... Henry IV of England, depicted in Cassells History of England, Century Edition, published circa 1902 Henry IV King of England, Lord of Ireland. ... Henry IV (April 3, 1367 – March 20, 1413) was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, Henry of Bolingbroke. His father, John of Gaunt was the third and oldest surviving son of King Edward III of England, and enjoyed a position of... Nottingham is a city and county town of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ...

This meant that a number of Richard's intimate associates, namely Michael de la Pole, Nicholas Bembre, de Vere, Alexander Nevill, and Chief Justice Robert Tresilian, were found guilty of 'living in vice, deluding the said king...embracing the mammon of iniquity for themselves'.[1] Michael de la Pole may refer to: Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389). ...

Brembre and Tresilian were executed at Tyburn the same month: de la Pole, Nevill and de Vere, having managed to flee the country, were sentenced in their absence. Other members of the king's retinue were also condemned, including Simon Burley, John Beauchamp, James Baret, and John Salisbury, who were all hanged and beheaded; Robert Bealknap, John Holt, Roger Fulthorp, William Burgh, John Locton and John Cary were exiled to Ireland. Thomas Usk (author of The Testament of Love) and John Blake, members of Brembre's and Tresilian's households respectively, were also put to death. Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex which now forms part of Londons City of Westminster. ... Thomas Usk (d. ...

After this virtual coup d'etat, the Appellants continued to dominate English politics for the next year. Richard was their virtual puppet until the return of John of Gaunt from his Spanish campaigns in 1389. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (June 24, 1340 - February 3, 1399), the third surviving son of King Edward III of England, gained his name because he was born at Ghent in 1340. ... Events February 24 - Margaret I seizes Albert, thus becoming ruler of Denmark, Norway and Sweden June 28 - Battle of Kosovo between Serbs and Ottomans. ...

External links

• Thomas Favent, History or Narration Concerning the Manner and Form of the Miraculous Parliament at Westminster, trans. by Andrew Galloway, in The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England, ed. by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington (Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2002), pp.231-52. ISBN 0801487706